I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.
Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
SingTel has made substantial investments in markets with high growth potential in South Asia, such as India and Bangladesh.
I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.
So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
